... the Malayo-Polynesian (Malagasy) and Indo-European (Afrikaans) families are also found in Africa. In many areas, the combination of these factors creates a complex kalei-doscope of language ... Berber languages (including Tamazight and Tamasheq), Fula and Swahili are spoken, dialectal and vernacular dierentiation has occurred. In the precolonial past, and still to varying degrees today, ... eort and resources to achieve that end. Indeed, is increasingly being put to use in processing, analysing, reading, transcribing, and translating an ever widening range of languages. What...